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Heavy implementation not for everyone
October 25, 2017

Heavy implementation not for everyone

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sitecore Web Content Management

We use Sitecore to manage all our web content that gets used in large venues such as airports as well as military bases to sell and provide wireless services.
  • Content and styling separation
  • Customizability of the platform
  • Work flow of publishing
  • For good authoring experience for content authors, heavy development to customize the interface is necessary
  • Learning curve for developers and users is very high
  • A/B testing is hard to set up
  • Personalization is hard to setup
  • No real ROI story yet
  • The potential is promising
  • Actually evaluating other A/B testing tool right now since we haven’t been able to get it working in SC.
Sitecore provides and enterprise grade CMS over WordPress and allow us to do the customization we need for our unique environment. Optimizely might be better for AB testing.
From talking to other users of Sitecore (SC), the experience they have with SC varies a lot. It seems what all the users who like SC have in common is a strong development team who knows how to execute and customize Sitecore the “right” way. When SC is executed by a team of less experienced developers, the results can be very negative and counterproductive to operational efficiency.

Sitecore Experience Manager Feature Ratings

4.7
WYSIWYG editor
6
Code quality / cleanliness
5
Admin section
5
Page templates
6
Mobile optimization / responsive design
5
Publishing workflow
5
Form generator
1
5.0
Content taxonomy
7
Availability / breadth of extensions
3
Community / comment management
5
2.0
Internationalization / multi-language
2
8.0
Role-based user permissions
8
CMS programming language or framework ()
Not Rated